Chapiteau Plaid

Painting

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DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Chapiteau Plaid

Entry/Object ID

2019.06

Description

Cool toned plaid pattern overlaying muted picture of person in dress & other gestural lines

Artwork Details

Medium

paint on canvas

Context

Chicago artist Deborah Boardman’s subject matter ranges from her studio interiors, sacred architecture, and history to portraits of friends and family, ethereal memories, and mortality. Primarily a painter, Boardman’s diaphanous color palette and paint handling particularly true in her later works have been described as “what life looks like in that gracious limbo between life and death.” But, in addition to the material aspects, the generosity in her collaborations with others, her friendships and spiritual curiosities are also somehow conveyed in her physical works. In Chapiteau Plaid (2009), Boardman mocks the notion of interior, exterior, and ephemerality with lattice-work that is both gauzy and opaque (a “chapiteau” being a tent or area for spectacle). Are the cartoon-like figures in the background looking onto the spectacle of the viewer, or are we on the outside looking in? This hazy narrative is copied in the handling of the paint and composition.

Acquisition

Accession

2019.04-06

Source or Donor

Joseph Ferguson

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of the Family of Deborah Marie Boardman

Made/Created

Artist

Deborah Boardman

Date made

2009

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Painting

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

time, physics concepts, physical sciences concepts, scientific concepts, mortality, biological concepts, female, sex (biological characteristic), spiritualism, philosophical concepts, Chicago windows, windows, openings (architectural elements), architectural elements, components (objects parts)

Hierarchy Name

Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), Components (hierarchy name)

Facet

Associated Concepts Facet, Objects Facet

Dimensions

Dimension Description

overall; canvas

Width

15 in

Length

20 in